Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The world has changed, and neither one recognizes it.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

Stay strong, because they are weak.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Come on, man.

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Iraq Reconstruction

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More news from Iraq:

Army plans call for keeping about 100,000 U.S. soldiers in Iraq through March 2006, a senior Army officer said Friday. The plans reflect concerns of senior commanders that stabilizing Iraq could be more difficult than anticipated.

The officer warned that maintaining a force of that size in Iraq beyond then would cause the Army to “really start to feel the pain” from stresses on overtaxed active-duty soldiers as well as Reserve and National Guard troops.

The officer was offering a senior-level Army view on the issue. The size of any future American force in Iraq ultimately will be decided by the president and a new provisional Iraqi government.

Expect the Democrat’s faux ‘Bush is going to cut and run’ meme to be temporarily sidetracked with a return to grave concerns that we have no plan. If only the UN were involved.

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  1. 1.

    The Commissar

    This may be just my perception, but during November, the worst month for casualties since April, has the ‘quagmire’ bit died down a liitle?

    “Vital interests” or the public peceptions of htem are critical here. The “Bush is going to cut & run, call in the blue helmets” meme is a CLEAR acknowledgement by the Dems that our vital interests ARE involved.

    Once that is granted, it’s hard for them to bitch and moan about casualties.

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    Kimmitt

    Okay, I’m going to say this really slowly so everyone here can understand.

    There is a debate within the Democratic Party about the best course of action in Iraq.

    Some Democrats believe that we should essentially leave immediately, because the invasion was basically immoral and failure is inevitable. Some believe that President Bush did the right thing to invade, but that his Administration has not been as successful during the occupation as it should be, and they believe they have other plans. Still others believe that we should not have invaded in the first place, but now that we have, we have acquired new vital interests in the area that we did not have previously.

    You are therefore going to get a lot of conflicting statements on Iraq from Democrats and their preferred candidates. They will make more sense if you see the Democratic Party as what America ought to be — a marketplace of ideas.

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